Clarion 1970-03-20 Vol 45 No 21

THE COMFORTABLE PEW, written by Donald Dickens and
produced by Jerry Sather will be presented Friday and Satur-day
evenings at Luther Theological Seminary at 8.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE OTTOMAN one of the two
original scripts presented this weekend, is a criticism of the
church in theater of the absurd style. (see inside story)
March 24 film in memory of King
documents civil rights movement •E Bethe l College, St. Paul, Minnesota VOL. XLV - NO. 21
U of M offers an
Administrative
internship for
summer course
The University of Minnesota is
once again offering a summer ad-ministrative
internship program to
one junior from each of 26 Minne-sota
colleges.
Bethel, as one of the 26 schools,
has been invited to nominate one
student and one alternate who has
completed his junior year and has
demonstrated leadership qualities
and academic aptitude to partici-pate
in this special 10-week sum-mer
program of study and intern-ship
in a government agency on
the federal, state, county, or mu-nicipal
level in the Twin Cities
area.
The student will be registered
as a U of M Summer school
student and he will be required
to give 20 hours per week to the
governmental service to which he
is assigned. The agency will pay
the student approximately $50 per
week over the 10-week period.
The agency, in conjunction with a
professor from the university will
provide the supervision in adminis-tration.
In addition to the pay, the stu-dent
will receive from 12 to 15
academic credits for his work in
the agency.
According to Bill Johnson, Pro-fessor
of History and Political Sci-ence
at Bethel, "Students of any
undergraduate major are encour-aged
to seek further information
either from myself or the student's
own college advisor." He also
pointed out that nominations must
be in to the university by April
15.
Some of the Minnesota schools
participating in the program will
be Macalester, St. Olaf, Augsburg,
Moorhead State, St. John's, Carle-ton
and several others.
by Anne Dalton
The 1970-1971 budget of the
Bethel College Student Associa-tion
was passed with no opposition.
The budget was developed by a
committee consisting of Karen Nel-son,
Jim Carlson, Wendell Wahlin,
Tom Ford, Linda Sparks, A. Dean
Pearson and Don Dewey. It is the
result of combining and rennovat-ing
two previously submitted bud-gets.
The new budget is as follows:
Clarion $9,000
Student Activities Committee
Intercollegiate $150
International Dinner $150
Publicity Calendar $ 50
Homecoming $250
Roster $150
Photo - Art Year's
Record $8,000
General $1,500
Total $10,250
General $1,000
Stipends
Student Activities
Coordinator $1,300
President $1,300
Vice-President $300
Treasurer $500
Secretary $300
Editor-in-Chief
On Tuesday evening, March 24,
a most extraordinary movie "thea-tre
party" will be attended in
more than 300 cities simultan-eously
by one million persons.
The single showing of the film
is expected to raise $5,000,000 to
help support organizations ded-icated
to carrying on the work and
teachings of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The motion picture will docu-ment
the civil rights movement
(Clarion)
$1,300
Copy Editor $500
Production Editor $500
Total Stipends $6,000
TOTAL BUDGET $26,250
The funds allotted to the Clar-ion
($9000) will enable it to con-tinue
production and aid in impr-ovements.
In addition, stipends of
$500 each have been provided for
a Copy Editor and Production Ed-itar.
The Copy Editor will take
care of all copy and copy reading
while the Production Editor will
manage layouts, photos and proof-reading.
This will leave the Editor-in-
Chief (stipend $1,300) to serve
in a supervisory position in addit-ion
to his other duties, with res-ponsibility
for the paper as a
whole.
The majority of Senators felt
that since a year book was sup-posed
to represent a year and the
traditional yearbook was not suc-ceeding
in this function, it should
be discontinued for next year. In
its place they have alloted $8000
($1000 of which is the stipend for
the editor) to provide some sort
of a photo-art record of the year.
Exact make-up would be dependent
on the editor chosen next year.
in the U.S. during its most impor-tant
and revolutionary period. As
such, it will serve a great educa-tional
function in schools and
universities for many years to
come.
Entitled "King: A Filmed Record
. . . .Montgomery to Memphis",
the full-length two and one-half
hour motion picture traces the
work of Dr. King from 1955 until
his death in 1968.
continued on page 5
It is hoped that additional funds
can be raised for both of these
publications through a more ex-tensive
advertising program. There
is the possibility of a business man-•
ager working for both publica-tions
on a generous commission
basis. He would be required, for
example, to produce 50 ads and
his commission would not be paid
until he had secured all 50. This
could develope into a successful
part-time job. It was also suggested
that the students be charged a
small fee of $1 or $2 for their
Spire.
The Student Activities Commit-tee
budget, made up of Intercoll-egiate,
International Dinner, Pub-licity
Calendar, Homecoming, The
Roster and Photo-art Year Record,
totals $8,750. This leaves $1,500
in the general fund for social act-ivities
or other proposed student
functions
The General Fund would pro-vide
for shortages in other areas
and for special activities such as
syposiums or special speakers.
In addition to the stipends al-lotted
the resident, Vice-President,
Secretary and Treasurer, a stipend
of $1,300 for a Student Activities
continued on page 2
Today's election
! will instate
2 student leaders
Last Friday's primary election
found just under 50% of the Stu-dent
Body selecting Rick Berggren,
Elden Elseth, Hugh McLeod and
Tom Ford as the final contenders
in this week's election for Presi-dent
and Vice-President of the
Student Association.
The candidates were introduced
in Wednesday's chapel and each
one presented his election plat-form.
Rick-s platform is one of
minority recruitment, new campus
planning, upgrading of athletics,
and more "things to do" on cam-pus.
Elden has included reorgani-zation
of the Senate, discontinuing
the Spire and an expansion of
social and cultural activities in his
platform.
Voting is taking place this week
Thursday and Friday at the Coffee
Shop ticket window. In addition
to President and Vice-President,
class senators and senators-at-large
will also be chosen at this
election. There are eight positions
available.
Rick Berggren, junior, pre-sidential
candidate.
Tom Ford, sophomore, vice-presidential
candidate.
Elden Elseth, junior, pres-idential
candidate.
Hugh McLeod, sophomore,
vice-presidential candidate.
In compiling 1970.71 budget, Student Senate
reorganizes government, withdraws WBCS funds
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Page 2 the CLARION Friday, March 20, 1970
Hatfield favors Commission recommendations
of volunteer military to enhance national security
As tuitiongoes upward
Will students go down?
At the senate meeting this week, Student Association President
Dave Shupe brought to the notice of the senators the fact that he and
vice-president Berggren would be attending a meeting of the Board
of Education this weekend. He said that the board members would be
asking him how students felt about the tuition raise. Apparently they
don't know. This editorial comment is for the benefit of those members
who may happen upon it — especially since the meeting is in the Twin
Cities this time — and to give students a few things to think about in
planning their future education.
Students have been strangely silent this year on the issue of
increased tuition. But I think it would be a mistake to concur with
President Nixon that silence means approval.
There are two things any institution needs in order to be classified
as a school. It needs both students and professors. The main reason
given the students for raised tuition this year was faculty salaries.
Of course a college needs faculty, however, it also needs students.
Look at a few facts. According to James Bragg, 70 percent of
Bethel's students work to help put themselves through school. In three
years tuition has increased one-third or 33 percent. It has gone up
$550. As a freshman three years ago I paid $550 per semester, tuition.
Next year it will be $825 — per semester.
Last year the catalogue estimate of student expenses was $2250.
Next year it will be at least $2500. If you fail to understand the mean-ing
of the statement 'a school needs students,' do a little simple arith-metic.
If Bethel lost as few as ten students, they would lose $25,000
or between two and three faculty salaries.
This month's Standard made a very interesting and misleading
statement of fact. Students, at Bethel College and Seminary, they said,
pay 50 percent of their educational expenses. That may be true for
the Seminary. However, students at the college pay over 80 percent
of the cost of their education. College students are, in a sense, subsi-dizing
the Seminary. Nothing against Sem students, but anyone who
aspires to become a minister is truly in God's will and holier than the
average run of the mill teacher or social worker. Must we reward
and take care of these holy men — won't God — especially if they're
within His will?___
Another interesting fact is that increase in financial aid this year
did not, according to reports from the last meeting of the Board of
Education, coincide with the increase in tuition.
Now, it really would not seem quite so ridiculous to pay the amount
of tuition that we do, if the facilities were comperable.
I happen to have a double major. Between my two major fields,
I have three fulltime faculty members and another that doubles in two
fields. None of these four have full professorships, though one is a
doctor. They include two instructors, two associate professors. Next
year one of those professors is leaving and the administration has not
as yet been able to state that they have a replacement.
Three years ago, there were three fulltime members in those
fields (two of which had doctorate degrees). They included an instructor,
an associate professor and a professor. One of these fields, that of
sociology, has one of the largest number of majors in the college.
Faculty is not the only problem, however. As everyone knows, our
campus buildings are old and as promises of a new campus continue
to extend to later and later dates, so also continues the reluctance to
put money into the present campus. Those facilities which are not old
and inadequate are generally non-existant such as a chapel, and an
auditorium for the performing groups on campus, to name a couple
of the most blatant inadequacies.
I have a brother who is a senior in high school 'but I can honestly
say that I don't know anyone that I would recommend 'Bethel to. Of
course, all small private colleges are in much the same position,
financially, however, I would venture to say that most do not pay 80
percent of the cost of their education.
* * * *
Poo outranks 'in White Ameica'
Dave Whitney, Assistant professor of Speech, and his high school
students presented In White America last weekend in Room 106. a
rather interesting comparison in the audience between this production
and the one of Winnie the Poo was brought to my attention. Everyone,
including President Lundquist and Dean Virgil Olson turned out to
see Poo Bear and his antics. No such persons were present last
Saturday evening when the production of In White America brought to
focus one of the major problems and issues on our campus.
Nothing against Poo Bear, but could it be that the administration
finds fairy tales more worthy of their time than the problems of the
campus and the concerns of the students? Of course there could have
been a valid excuse for their failure to attend
Senate passes budget proposal continued from page 1
Coordinator has been added. The
function of this person would be
to appoint all Student Activity
chairmen and then oversee and
coordinate all of the committees'
activities as far as scheduling,
finances and program are concern-ed.
It was noted by President Dave
Shupe that this would not overlap
or detract from the duties of the
Association President. The only
duty lost to the President would
be that of appointing committee
chairmen.
The earlier budgets presented
had suggested the possibility of
eliminating such things as Home-coming,
Spire and Coeval. Home-coming
has been retained intact
Senator Mark 0. Hatfield (R.—
Ore.) recently announced his in-tention
to introduce legislation
based on the recommendations of
the Gates Commission.
"The Gates Commission," said
Hatfield, "has made an outstanding
analysis of the feasibility of an
all-volunteer military, and I wish
to see their conclusions imple-mented
this session."
Appointed by President Nixon,
the Gates Commission approxi-mately
one year ago, reported to
the President that a volunteer
military is feasible at this time
and at present manpower levels.
It further pointed out that the
first-term enlistee is now subsidiz-ing
his own tour of duty; by re-ceiving
an inordinately low salary
he is paying a hidden tax which
should be shifted to a budgetry
cost rather than in effect penaliz-ing
the soldier for serving his
country.
Hatfield, who since becoming a
Senator in 1967 has twice intro-duced
legislation to abolish the
draft and establish a volunteer
military, further stated that he
was pleased to see the credibility
of a Presidential Commission lend-ing
to assertions he has been mak-ing
for over three years. The
Senator also noted that he was
pleased to be introducing a bill
ebapet gott5
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
Dr. Walter Wessel will be the
first speaker of Holy Week as
he brings the message, "The con-summation".
On Tuesday Pastor
Ellis Eklof of the Edgewater Bap-tist
Church will bring a message on
the centrality of the cross. Don
Rainbow has prepared a medita-tion
for Wednesday using Ben Hur
as a source. On Thursday Brigadier
Miller of the Salvation Army in
New York City will speak.
Since many
students will
be leaving early
for Easter Break
the CLARION will
not publish next week.
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Editor in chief Pat Faxon
News Editor Marg Erickson
which he believed the President which further recommended that
could support, citing President draft registration on a standby ba-
Nixon's campaign address in which sis should continue and conscrip-he
stated, "If we can reasonably tion should be reinstituted only by
meet our manpower needs by oth- joint resolution of the Congress
er means, then we should prepare at the recommendation of the Pres-for
the day when the draft can ident.
be phased out of American life." "The Gates Commission has con-
"The President's Commission clusively answered all of the cri-makes
it very clear that that day ticisms of an all-volunteer mili-has
come," said Hatfield. tary," Hatfield said. "We have
"In the long run," the Senator waited too long as it is to abolish
contined, "we will be saving peacetime conscription and owe it
money and our national security to ourselves, and particularly to
will be enhanced." These points our youth, to rectify this ineffi-were
also made by the Commission cient and inequitable injustice."
Up against the wall?
Get it on, government
What can student government do next year at Bethel? A typical
response to this question is "Nothing much."
Timid student leadership, lack of specific programs, student
apathy, administrative bullheadedness, faculty superiority complexes,
and financial difficulties could hog-tie our student government next
year.
However, while the snags confronting and blocking student power
could develop into a tangled mess; they also might be unravelled
and straightened out
The possibilities for extensive and dynamic action arising from our
student government are enormous. The recently passed student-senate
budget (see front page story) contains some new organizational plans
that will streamline student government, make it more effective and
responsive to the students, and free the association president from
some of his administrative duties so he can assume an aggressive
leadership role.
Some directions in which student government should and can move
next year are: stimulating intellectual and cultural life on the campus,
consideration of national issues with educational forums such as Mora-torium
Day last fall, developing close working relations with neighbor-ing
colleges and community agencies that are working for community
improvement, minority group recruitment, revising cirriculum, the
grading system, and graduation requirements, re-examining the rela-tionship
between the Conference and Bethel students, decreasing the
high college costs students pay by having the seminary students
pay for their education instead of the college students paying the
seminarian's way (they pray, we pay), re-examination of present living
facilities and the rules governing those facilities, providing more flex-ible
and informal social activities, beefing up the athletic program,
lobbying to lower costs on books, etc.
There is a lot to be done; a whole lot more than hasseling over
whether or not to have the Spire, creating a good image for Bethel or
helping her attain financial solvency, (students pay enough without
going out on fund-raising drives for the college), discussing what
to do with Homecoming, counting leaves on the trees on Arden Hills
campus (the Promised Land), or contemplating our morality and spirit-uality
as we scratch our belly-buttons.
One of the presidential candidates issued a mandate for a year of
relevancy. Relevancy can be achieved by the student government and
the student body as a whole through pushing for needed and significant
changes on Bethel's campus and emphasizing Bethel's Christian respons-ibility
to be aware of what is going on in the world and working for
needed changes. Remember, action is more effective than rhetoric.
What can student government do next year at Bethel? A potential
response, "Anything and everything."
Marjorie M. Rusche
Feature Editor Cindy Rostollan
Proofreader Sharon Watson
Fine Arts Editor Marjorie Rusche
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Sports Editor Tim Weko
Business Manager Warren Magnuson
Layout Editor ... Lynn Hansen
Photographer Phil Humbert
Copy Editor Anne Dalton
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle,
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Tom Ford, Dave Greener, Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
Jan Ullberg, Jan Urspringer, not necessarily reflect the position of the
Wibby Smith, Ron Roper college or seminary.
with the note by the Senate that
it is primarily a College function.
Provision for the Spire and Coeval
has been incorporated into the idea
of a photo-art year record.
A major change in this new bud-get
has been the ommission of
support for the Bethel radio station
WBCS. It was felt by the Senate
that because of their very limited
funds they would not be able to
approach the sum of money needed
by WBCS to continue functioning.
Therefore it was decided to free
them from Senate control and
support and enable the station to
investigate other possible sources
of financial help in terms of a
grant or loan.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE OTTOMAN presented this
weekend is written and produced by Steve Bracklow.
Friday, March 20, 1970 the CLARION Page 3
Senatorial candidate Gabe seeks to know Bethel, Americans
by Cindy Rostollan
Watch out! This year we've got
a student running for Senate who
aims to keep his promises. Gabriel
Ofotokum, (just Gabe), is a fresh-man
from Nigeria (who eventually
plans on going into medicine),
and he has been involved in pol-tics
for a long time.
"When I was in high school, I
was secretary of my local High
School Students Union, and in the
University in Ibadan, I became
involved in conference politics,
and worked on the cultural com-mittee,
variety show committee
and things like that.
"My father is a teacher at the
Baptist school in our small village,
and he often has to use his influ-ence
in village matters. My basic
interest in politics came from him.
"Some of the things I'd like to
see done if I get in are: an increase
in social activities, making meal
tickets transferable (from person
to person), meals should be option-al
if you're in the dorm, and I
believe that the telephone on cam-pus
should be open from 7-12 ev-eryday,
even on Sunday.
"The basic reason I want to be-come
a Senator here is, many of
the foreign students really aren't
known well. I believe I can get
to know Bethel and the Americans
through this experience and they
can get to know me.
"When I first came here, I
had terrible ideas about the Am-ericans,
basically from what I
learned from the papers about
Viet Nam and the things that
happen there. Now after talking to
the students here, and reading
your papers, I've learned what is
really happening there and what
the Americans are really like. I
think the Americans get much of
the same impressions about Nigeria
from the papers, as I got about
Viet Nam, and I can understand
why they feel that way about Ni-geria
by just reading your papers
and watching T.V., and seeing what
is happening in my country. I get
papers from home to get the true
picture about what's happening.
"I've learned that you have to
take the Press at face value, and
try and seep the good from it.
You must learn to read it objec-tively,
that's the only way to get
at peace with yourself. Often I be-lieve
that the press is endangering
the prospect of peace.
"When foreign students come to
Bethel, people expect us to be-have
like Americans. They should
learn to realize that it's a bit dif-
Gabriel Ofotokun, senator-ial
candidate.
ficult for us to adjust here, espec-ially
in religious matters.
"Christianity is influenced by
culture, and so many of the things
you do, I see as hypocritical. Then
there are things you will probably
see me do that are hypocritical to
you, too, but this is just the dif-ference
in our culture.
"Often one of the biggest mis-takes
missionaries make when they
come to another country is they
try and impress their culture on
us. I have mixed emotions about
missionaries because of that. I
believe that they should try and
change anything in a people that
is contrary to the Bible, but many
try and Americanize us too. They
should try to know as much as
they can about our culture, and
then understand the people. If
they do find something that
shouldn't be, then they should try
and tactfully tell the people. Many
of my people don't accept Chris-tianity
because of the secondary
things.
"Six or seven years ago, there
was an uprising and many mis-sionaries
were killed. I believe
this to be partly because the peo-ple
were afraid of the way they
were being changed, and they
thought it was the missionaries'
fault. It was difficult for them to
realize that many of the things that
they had done all their lives was
wrong, and they became afraid.
"It was easier for me to accept
the missionaries because my fa-ther
had been partially educated
by them, and I knew more of
them."
Gabe says that he will also be
participating on the track team
this spring, (he was also on our
soccer team last fall). It is inter-esting
to add that while he was in
Nigeria he was an Eagle Scout.
In fact, it was through scouting
that he first came to the United
States.
"In 1967, I was one of the rep-resentatives
from Nigeria at the
Eagle Scout Jamboree in Idaho.
Our scout council spent some time
in the twin cities, though I stayed
with the Kravik family in Anoka.
When I got back to Nigeria, I
wanted to go to school in America
and found Bethel was one of the
Baptist colleges in the United
States, (and in the Cities), so I
applied. I had no money, and when
I heard from Bethel, they said they
could give me financial help, but
they did send the name of a
man who wanted to sponsor an
African student that was interest-ed
in scouting and Bethel.
"I contacted that man, (Mr. John
C. Parish), and also the people I
had stayed with during the Jam-boree,
and they made all the
arrangements here. Things work-ed
out for me, and now I am here.
"I believe it is providence I
am here, and I know that nothing
will happen to me until I have
fulfilled what I have to do here.
I have never had to be troubled
about tomorrow, I'm always taken
care of."
Mobe encourages obedience to draft in 'paperwork war'
WASHINGTON — (CPS) — The
New Mobilization Committee To
End The War In Vietnam has de-vised
a plan to inundate the Selec-tive
Service system in paperwork
and thus beat the SS at its own
game.
Proceeding on the assumption
that "Selective Service just cannot
stand up, administratively, to ab-solute
obedience of the draft law,"
New Mobe is urging everyone to
by Carroll L. Jarp
A group of 45 Bethel students
plan to join Campus Crusade's
"Operation Sunshine" in Daytona
Beach, Florida during spring va-cation.
"Operation Sunshine" sounds
like an episode from Mission Im-possible;
instead, it is a strategic
means of witnessing to college stu-dents
about Christ.
This spring 100,000 college stu-dents
from all over the country
are expected to hit the beaches
in Daytona. "Operation Sunshine"
purposes to present Christ through
personal evangelism to these kids
with a follow-up program con-ducted
by the local Campus Cru-sade
groups. Campus Crusade has
been involved with this type of
beach evangelism for several years.
Last year Bethel students wit-nessed
on beaches of Fort Lauder-dale.
"This year we hope to be
more effective in reaching young
comply so completely with the law
that the nation's 4,100 local draft
boards become hopelessly tied up
in paperwork.
The plan, which is part of the
New Mobe spring offensive, re-quires
that male registrants in-form
their draft boards of every
change in their address, religion,
mental attitude, health, occupation,
and marital status. Selective Ser-vice
law already requires such
pople for Christ by joining a larg-er
group of Christian kids in wit-nessing,"
said Dale Saxon, Chris-tian
Service Director. "In so doing
we will get the feeling of joining
with other Christians from secular
schools as well as getting to know
better fellow Bethel students. Be-sides
witnessing to kids on the
beaches, we hope to have a minis-try
in the homes where we will be
staying. We also hope to just have
some fun in the sun," he continued.
Campus Crusade hopes to in-volve
500 to 1000 Christian stu-dents
in its "Operation Sunshine"
this year. The program includes
performances by a band known as
the "Armageddon", the AIA
Weight Lifting Team, and such
speakers as well as Bill Bright,
Swede Anderson, Dave Hannah,
and Andre Kole.
The 45 Bethel students will be
leaving St. Paul on March 27th by
car and will return April 3.
notification, but boards, because
of the paperwork involved rarely
keep close checks on all these mat-ters,
particularly on every change
in mental attitude.
New Mobe's major focus will be
to recruit the 18 million men in
the 5-A Classification (over-age)
into the "paperwork war."
Although the law requires every
male born after August 30, 1922,
to be registered and carry his draft
card, local boards generally pay no
attention to their over-25 registr-ants.
If local boards were suddenly
forced to pay attention to the old-ies,
they would quickly find them-selves
armpit-deep in paperwork.
New Mobe spokesman Mrs. Trudi
Foung says, "We want everyone
to take this law so seriously that
they inform their board of every
single change (in their status), even
if they're over-age or have already
completed their service."
A local board must place in a
registrant's file all material the
registrant requests placed there.
If several hundred books a regis-trant
has read, for example, change
his mental attitude or religious
beliefs, the books may be placed
in the registrant's file.
College, Sem
produce plays
Two plays both written and pro-duced
by college and seminary
students will be presented Friday
and Saturday evenings this week-end
at Luther Theological Semin-ary.
According to Dale Rott, Asso-ciate
Professor of Speech at the
college, "the drama department
attempts to have an experimental
opportunity each year to encourage
original program and playwriting."
Both of this year's productions
attack the attitudes of the church,
Comfortable Pew through a trad-itional
satire style and A Day in
the Life of the Ottoman through a
style called theater of the absurd.
Both plays were written by semin-ary
students, The Comfortable Pew
by Donald Dickens and A Day in
the Life of the Ottoman by Steve
Brachlow, who is also the producer
of that particular script.
Bethelites head for the beaches
U.S. Senate flexes some inactive muscles as Laos threatens
WASHINGTON — (CPS) —That
Laos is an early Vietnam in the
context of American involvement
has become a cliche in the short
time of two weeks—since several
senators of both parties brought
the issue to the floor of Congress
and asked the executive branch
for an explanation.
Previous to that, most senators
had contented themselves with
calling for the release of testimony
on Laos compiled for the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee by
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.).
But bringing of the issue to the
floor of the Senate lent an aura of
credibility and immediacy to press
reports date-lined "Laos" which
for months sought the attention
of only the most determined South-east
Asia watchers.
The Senate has, of late, been
suffering an identity crisis; some
members are beginning to under-stand
that Congress shares with
the President the power of shaping
America's foreign policy, yet few
agree how far that power extends.
For many, the Laos question is
a good testing ground for the flex-ing
of some hitherto inactive Sen-ate
muscles. And apparently the
tactic has worked, for President
Nixon found reason to issue a
3,000-word report dealing mainly
with the past, but throwing at
least an official glimpse on the
present. Left unanswered, however,
was just how much the present will
mean to the future.
Perhaps one of the more telling
points in the President's state-ment
was his failure to state that
the United States was obliged to
protect the neutrality of Laos "at
any cost." While justifying the
bombing of the Ho Chi Mhin trail
by claiming as its intent the pro-tection
of American troops in
South Vietnam, he did not threaten
American retaliation against North
Vietnamese aggression.
Nixon did claim that America
had no ground combat forces in
Laos. No one is certain if that in-cludes
Green Berets working for
the Central Intelligence Agency
which, since it is a secret organ-ization,
would not be considered in
any account. The tag-along admis-sion
of between 27 and 50 Ameri-can
deaths and the recent admis-sion
that Americans in Laos have
received combat pay since 1966
raise a new governmental credibili-ty
gap concerning the extent of US
ground involvement.
If the President's appeal to Rus-sia
fails, the love affair between
this country and Laos may either
deepen or die a hasty death. Those
subscribers to an honorable settle-ment
in Vietnam cannot help but
figure Laos and Thailand into their
equation. Seemingly, they would ad-vocate
full logistical support to
Souvanna Phouma just as they do
for the Theiu-Ky regime.
Likewise, those arguing for total
disengagement from Vietnam fear
that military considerations will
overshadow political ones, and the
United States will find itself in a
Laotian quicksand not unlike the
infant rays of American involve-ment
in Vietnam under Johnson
and Kennedy.
In essence, the Geneva Accord—
which both the U.S. and North Viet-nam
are in violation of—are all
the solid support Nixon can lean on
in his future decisions regarding
Laos. Any and all other action,
should the re-instatement of Laos
as a neutral country fail, will be
tempered by political and military
considerations.
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These are the five of the group that won the beauty con-test.
(Riding does get tedious, you know).
The Jug Band provides music to change the tires by—an
impromptu practice performance, perhaps 'WE'LL BE FINE.'
After the audience warmed up, it WAS fine. Dean, con-trary
to appearances, does not have a stomach ache— he's
'playing the box.'
Handbook presents platform for
Earth Day's ecological teach-in
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IP" • *
Jug Band travelogue unmasks
weekend musical excursion
"C'mon, guys, let's get a move on." Dean
Lindberg summons 'the gang' to the cars.
Oh . . . we're . .. off to see the Wizard
(in Platteville, of course).
Editor's note: Last weekend
Bethel's own Jug Band travelled
in concert out of state. The story
of their adventures is told here —
in their own words.
This part is being written by me
(Bo) — I'm going to tell you a-bout
our performance in Platt-ville.
(U.S.A.) The first half of the
performance went smoothly —how-ever
the audience wasn't in with
us or our music — this was six
blocks from a "bum voyage". Af-ter
we closed Alice's Restaurant
(Intermission) we gave out our
innards hoping only to give our
audience sweet music. As fate
would have it — the people got
into it — we were very enlighten-ed
to hear the audience yelling for
an encore — (however, I was a
little worried when I first came
through the curtain to find the
people on their feet — were they
leaving? — they weren't) — we
proceeded to play Abilene —
then left — they want more —
ok — we'll give them an improv-isation
of Blues in F which after
threehours broke into the Platte-ville
Blues. After this the entire
Band formed a greeting line at
the exits and shook the very hands
of our beautiful audience to quote
the words of a song . . . "But we
can't be happy — till we make you
happy too." — Bo
We were cruisin' along, takin'
pichers of the natives and all
when of a sudden Steve D. yells
out at a top of his lung, "Say
Guys", he says, "say Guys, what
say we grab a bit to eat?" Well
about this time we passed by this
liquor store and we stopped to
buy our food. We did not buy any
liquor seeing we were from Bethel.
We bought 4 lbs. of chedder
cheese, 2 lbs. of sausage and 1
box Ritz Crackers, 2 bottles pop,
and 4 sticks beef jerkey, and 1
tub of French onion potatoe chip
dip. We kind of ate the stuff while
we rode. Near the end, tho, most
of us was gettin' full but Steve D.
was still goin' strong. You should
of seen him and that old rat but
(sausage) he hanged it on the coat
rack and commenced to snapping
at it like it was a apple. Maurice
Z. was the one for the cheese
tho. Any way we finally settled
down to read our Sgt. Rock and
Girl from Uncle Comic books and
all this was writ by D. Fryk.
After three hours of being ter-rorized
by the driving habits of
Maurice Zaffke, our manager, I
cleverly suggested that we stop
and pick up some food. (The idea
being that Zaffke would rather
eat than drive and therefore I
could drive for him and we could
relax.) And sure enough — it
worked. While Maurice (and every-one
else) stuffed themselves with
sausage, cheese, Ritz Crackers, dip,
and pop, I drove through the wilds
of Wisconsin. It was a pleasant
change but unfortunately, Maurice
could only eat so long, and then he
wanted to drive again. I would've
argued with him but since it was
his car I didn't.
On the return voyage we were
within range of Bethel but our
gas tank was low. We wanted to
get back in time for Sunday dinner
because everyone knows that that's
the only square meal of the week.
So we decided to risk it and we
steamed on toward Our Block. But,
alas, bum voyage — we ran out of
gas in South St. Paul. So Keano
Deano and me walked to the gas
station. (Actually we hitchhiked
there except nobody picked us up.)
We had to give the guy a $5
deposit to use his funnel. What a
gyp — but we got our deposit
back so it wasn't too bad. We got
a ride back to the car in a super
54 Chev. station wagon. We put
the 75¢ worth of gas in and made
it to Bethel. The windows were
all steamed up when we got back
because they had been sleeping
while we were gone. M.S.
On March 14 we went to Platt-ville
Wisc. Bill (of "Marry Me Bill"
fame) was there wearing boots
and traditional overflaps. To the
dismay of all, his shoulders were
located. To top it off, we had no
money so Harold Conrad willed
his last quarter to the treasury.
We agreed that this would poss-ibly
need repair, so we went to
the show. Actually, we couldn't
stay so we came back to Tuscon.
Oh well we'll just have to try
again tomorrow.
In all actuality we left on a
clear windy day and drove in two
cars filled with happy and expect-ing
enthusiasm. I, Mark, Fryk, Bill,
and Maurice drove in his car till
we had a flat tire which caused a
spot in which we played outside
whilst Mark fixed the tire then
we got back into our car and drove
off hoping to meet car number 2
at Black River Falls, containing
'Barry A., Bo C., Dean L., Bob V.).
Car number 1 missed the turn and
ended up 25 mile out of the way.
"It all started when we missed
the turn. It was 25 miles later that
we knew it. Some of the boys
were crying, others were worried
but I cried to the driver to hit the
turn. It was "Couny Road E."
Now the race was on. The road
at first led to a small gas station.
Then — on down County Road
The road had more
curves than Rachel Welch and was
skinnier than Twiggy. Just as Mau-rice
would pull us out of one
curve we'd hit another. The scen-ery
was gruuvey. I was taking
pictures when it all ended and we
hit the highway.Our next stop was
a liquor store and picked up some
food and D.F. will tell you that.
I tried to find some Platteville
limestone but it was porphirotic
sandstone.
We stayed overnight in Wiscon-sin
at Myrbo's. We got to have
some sloppy joes. There was a
crummy movie on T.V. (I only had
enough time to brush up before
watching it). The movie was about
a crazy ex-movie star. Some of us
slept on the floor in the basement.
It could have been a "bum voy-age"
if we didn't have pillows.
That night I really had a "keen"
dream about playing in Carnnegie
Hall with the St. Olaf choir. At
last we awoke and then we came
back. During the movie we had
leftover cheese and crackers (this
was after we had performed on
Saturday night). "UPCLOSE" was
included in our volcubual itiner-ary
for the weekend. I guess
that's all the important stuff. You
can ask me for the details. How
about this "three pigs fell in the
mud". We also had breakfast on
Sunday morning. I had a Prophits
test on Monday. End. (signed)
Dean L.
After scrambled eggs (yeecck!)
at 7:00 in the morning the weary
band of wandering minstrels boar-ded
the Zaffke Special and headed
northwest without the use of maps,
lives in the hands of the raving
charts, or compass. Putting their
mad, bloody-nosed pilot the mus-ical
moronsical morons marvel-ously
made their journey to home
base (St. Paul). Does any man
doubt that they could make the
entire 250 mile trip with an empty
gas tank? Not the Mad Hatter! Oh
well, Dean Stewy can always take
a walk. — Bill M.
Fri. Nite: Took the 4:30 train
to East Dubuque, Ill. Walked up
the bar lined streets to find a
phone cause they took the one
out of the big East Dubuque sta-tion.
Sat. Went to hospital to visit
sick grandfather.
Sat. Arrived in Platteville just
in time for the "concert"?
Sun. Home church. Everyone
asked me why I was home and I
was afraid to tell them.
Sun. aft. Back to St. Paul on
3:55 train which was actually 4:05.
Rode in a car that was filled with
a bunch of kids that played poker
and talked loud.
Sun. eve. Back in St. Paul. by
donovan.
Prepared by Ballantine Books and
Friends of the Earth for the First
National Environment Teach-In-
April 22, 1970 . . . The Environ-mental
Handbook, edited by Gar.
rett De Bell; 384 pages - 95¢ origi-nal
paperbound book; No hard
cover edition available.
National concern is being fo-cused
on the crisis of the environ-ment.
April 22nd Earth Day is to
be a national day of environmental
action on campuses and in com-munities.
The Environmental Handbook
brings together the writings of stu-dents,
scientists, writers, and con-servationists
with suggestions for
an ecological platform and tactics
for change that can be acted on at
once by communities. The work-ing
part of the handbook relies
heavily on contributions f r o m
young most of whom are gradu-ate
students or otherwise connected
with student groups working on
environmental problems.
A full range of alternatives for
actions are described, including
those which are contradictory, but
the reader can hardly fail to find
something he can do.
The handbook demonstrates how
the actions each day of each indi-vidual
contributes to helping or
hurting the environment.
Members of the 1969-70 Women's choir and their Director Oliver Mogck will head California-ward
for their annual tour.
Women's choir travels to California on spring tour
Friday, March 20, 1970 the CLARION Page 5
by Steve Duininck
Each week I go through the hassel of writing something entertain-ing,
educational and somewhat coherant for all you people to read.
Sometimes my stories are too abstract or my coherancy ain't coherant,
but whatever is my smallest fallacy, I'm usually rebuffed for it.
So I got to thinking about writing an article that would please ev-eryone
to the point that I would hear a break in the endless criticism.
That is an impossibility. But it makes me think of the story of this little
baby old enough to talk but yet not old enough to know how to protect
his castle from others.
One morning he got up and said he would make everyone happy.
So he left his home with a bag full of assorted treats and went down
the path. First he came to a woodcutter. He told him how he was glad
the woodcutter cut wood and if he would or could cut him some wood.
In return he promised him some candy. But the wood cutter stole the
candy from the baby and told him to get going or he'd be on his last
leg. The baby shook it off and smiled as he cleared out of the woods.
Next he ran into a farmer, in the dell, and said. "Hi Ho!" The agri-cultural
specialist was milking his heifer so the kid offered to help,
since he had a lot of pull. The farmer thought the boy to be unqualified
for the job and ran him off the field with a pitch fork yelling "You
snot nosed kid, you ain't even dry behind the ears yet."
From here the kid ran, somewhat bewildered by all that was hap-pening,
'til he reached town. At the edge of Pleasantville he met a
preacher who shoved four helpful hints into his mouth before the baby
could state his case. He tried to tell the soul comforter all his problems
but each time he would open his mouth more helpful hints of nonsense
were dished out. He stumbled away choking and spitting knowing what it
meant to be filled.
He still didn't lose his faith so he figured he'd try once more. He
chose an educated gentleman next because if anyone would understand
love someone smart would. As he approached the man he saw him peek
over his bottle bottom glasses and come across with a puzzled look. Why
would an educated man be puzzled by a baby walking in diapers carry-ing
a gunny sack? It was cause the kid had a mole on his tooth. Mr. Ed
asked a few questions, gave a few answers and rode off.
So the baby went home and dreamed about all these things 'til he
same up with a conclusion: Life goes on day after day; You can't please
all the people all the time; It's a dog eat dog world; Love is a many
slender thing; and on and on and on and on and on . . .
P.S. This whole column is held together by the by-line so good-bye.
A FILMED RECORD. MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS.
One night only.
March 24th 1970, 8PM.
Tickets $5.00,tax deductible.
All proceeds to
The Martin Luther King,Jr.
Special Fund.
Film promotes M.L. King's work
On March 26th, the Bethel Wo-men's
Choir, beginning their
spring tour, will be heading to-wards
California.
The 43 members, under the
direction of Mx. Oliver Mogck, will
perform contemporary hymn
tunes, spiritual, as well as sacred
classics by Handel and Brahms.
An early American hymn with a
recorder accompaniment is one of
the highlights of the program. The
songs will be interwoven with ap-propriate
verses of scripture and
personal testimony.
According to Mr. Mogck, "The
program has great built-in inter-est
and variety for the listener.
In developing our concert pro-grams
we seek to carry out several
musical, educational, and spirit-ual
objectives, recognizing that in
each audience there are listeners
with a wide range of musical
by Bill Sievert
"Z" by Jorges Semprun, a
French-Algerian production by
Jaques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi;
directed by Constatin Costa-Gav-ras;
released by Cineme V; star-ring
Yves Montand, Irene Papas,
and Jean Louis Trintigant.
(CPS)— The slogan may have
become trite from overuse by the
skin flick people, but it once more
becomes appropriate when com-paring
"Z" to previous attempts
at movies on revolution. "Z" makes
"If. . ." (the best previous contem-porary
look at revolution) look
like a fairy tale.
While "If. . ." was very well
executed and left its audiences
ready to fight the good fight a-gainst
injustice, it was just a
story. A parable, perhaps, but
still fiction. "Z" moves at the fast
pace of fiction, but does not al-low
the viewer to forget the mili-tary
takeover of Greece is more
than a mere story. "Z" leaves a
real revolution in the lap of the
viewer.
The similarities to foreshadow-ing
events in this country makes
the drama all the more frighten-ing.
In "Z" there are the govern-ment
efforts to eradicate the
Black Panthers, the murders of
the Kennedys and King, and the
political assassination of United
Mine Workers presidential con-tender
Yablonski. In "Z" there is
the tremendous power of the mil-itary
and the intolerance of the
left that resembles Joe Mc-Carthy
eras in the past and, possibly, to
come. The police and government
keep close tabs on the left, so they
can squelch it.
"Z" demonstrates how working
through the system—taking legal
action against corruption—may ap-pear
to work, but also how the
legal system can be insidiously
tastes and emotional and spiritual
needs."
Joanne Halvorsen Smith is the
assistant conductor. Beverly Pear-son
and Jill Newcomer are ac-companists.
The itinerary for the tour is:
March 26—Alcester Baptist Church
Alcester, S. Dak.
March 29—Grace Baptist Church
Napa, Calif.
March 29—Willow Glen Baptist
Church, San Jose, Calif.
March 30—First Baptist Church
Carmel Valley, Calif.
March 31—Calvary Baptist Church
Turlock, Calif.
April 1—First Baptist Church
Kingsburg, Calif.
April 2—Grace Baptist Church
Santa Maria, Calif.
undermined and ultimately crush-ed
by the corrupt power structure.
Unfortunately, "Z" doesn't offer
any alternatives that might be suc-cessful
because in Greece today
none are suceeding. Perhaps none
can. But the producers do not
seem to want the audience to give
up hope; rather they want people
to become acutely aware of what
has happened in Greece and what
is happening and what can happen
elsewhere. They want people to
keep trying to find ways to create
a world in which ideas, particu-larly
ideas in support of peace, are
not repressed.
The action builds up quickly and
lasts through the closing credits,
which include an incredible list
of ideas, authors, music, and other
forms of expression no longer tol-erated
in Greece.
Whether or not it proves to be
the award-winner it appears it will
be, "Z" will certainly prove one of
the most politically controversial
films of our age. There almost cer-tainly
will be theaters who will
refuse to play it because of its
message rather than it's morals.
In Greece, obviously, it will never
be screened at all.
For, "Z", which meant "He
lives," tells too much about the
assassination of Gregorios Lam-brakis,
who was killed after ad-dressing
a peace rally opposing
the installation of American Pol-aris
missiles in Greece in 1963, and
it tells too much about the events
in Greece in the years since
Based on Vassili Vassilikos'
book, Director Constantin Costa-
Gavras uses his high-powered cast
including Yves Montand, to exe-cute
almost flawlessly the script
by Jorge Semprun, author of "La
Guerre Est Finie." There is no
doubt the creators and cast had
their hearts deeply in this one.
April 3—Calvary Baptist Church
Lompoc, Calif.
April 4—Foothill Baptist Church
Sylmar, Calif.
April 5—First Baptist Church
Reseda, Calif.
April 5—First Baptist Church
La Crescenta, Calif.
April 6—First Baptist Church
Palmdale, Calif.
April 7—Eagle Rock Baptist
Church, Los Angeles, Calif.
April 8—Bethany Baptist Church
Whittier, Calif.
April 9—Bethany Baptist Church
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
April 10—Nutwood Street Baptist
Church, Garden Grove, Calif.
April 11—University City First
Baptist, La Jolla, Calif.
April 12—Grace Baptist Church
Riverside, Calif.
April 12—First Baptist Church
Yucaipa, Calif.
lap of viewer
The composer of the musical
score, Mlikis Theodorakis, is under
house arrest in Greece and had to
smuggle the music out of the
country to France. Such dedication
by those who made the film shows
throughout.
There have been few films as
sincere, as frightening, and as per-fect
as "Z."
Swisher, Waite
present recital
by Marilee Benson
A joint-recital by Jay Swisher
and David Waite will be presented
Saturday, March 21, 8 p.m. in the
Seminary Chapel.
Jay, a senior music education
major, will perform on euphonium
and as a highlight of the recital
will perform Kindertotenleider
(Songs on the Death of Children)
by Gustav Mahler. In the piece a
father mourns for his dead chil-dren
and attempts to call them
back to memory. Other works by
Jay will include such composers
as Corelli, Balay, and Busser.
Dave, who is a junior, also a
music education major with a
vocal emphasis, will perform two
sections of music. The first sec-tion
will be composed of German
Leid and the second section will
include selections from the early
and late Baroque period. As a
major work, he will perform Dav-id
Mourns for Absalom, a contemp-orary
number.
Swisher has no definite plans
after his graduation in the Spring.
Waite is planning to go to
graduate school and work in the
area of music drama (opera).
Faculty, staff and students are
cordially invited to attend the re-cital
and the reception following.
continued from page 1
Ely Landau, the man who con-ceived
and organized the event and
produced the motion picture won
support from prominent executives,
creative people and top-ranking
organizations. In addition, groups
representing the three major re-ligions
agreed to lend their sup-port
to the massive job of selling
tickets for the filmed tribute to
the slain civil rights leader.
In commenting on the overall
project, Landau said, "The unique
concept of a single-evening, nation-wide
showing of the film will not
only produce maximum revenues
to help carry on the life work of
the late Dr. King but, with the help
of the hundreds of individuals and
organizations that are contributing
their time, talent and energies, will
also serve as a dramatic tribute to
Dr. King's memory. We hope that
in some small way this event will
be worthy of, and do justice to, the
cause to which Dr. King devoted
his life."
An even longer version of the
film, running over four hours, will
also be available for educational
purposes following the March 24
event.
'Z' flick leaves real revolution in
Page 6 the CLARION
Friday, March 20, 1970
Two Bethel coaches attend national
small college basketball tournament
by Bill Ankerberg
Last week the annual National
Association of Intercollegiate Ath-letics
convention was held in Kan-sas
City, Mo. Bethel's two repre-sentatives,
Coach Mo Shields and
Jack Trager, had a lot to report.
Perhaps the most interesting de-velopment
of the convention was
the drafting of singer Ray Hilde-brand
for this year's athletic ban-quet.
Aside from seeing old friends
and attending specialized sessions,
the coaches also saw the N.A.I.A.
Basketball Tournament. This year
the tournament featured 32 teams,
one for each district. The Minne-sota
representative was St. Thom-as
College of St. Paul.
The convention also featured the
national group meetings to discuss
equipment and rule changes for
next year. The main issue in the
football caucus was the influx of
neck injuries this past season.
There was much discussion when it
was revealed that 90 percent of
neck injuries are directly related
to the face guard. The main issue
was whether or not to keep the
face guard on. No decision was
made.
The basketball rules discussion
revolved around the possibility of
switching N.A.I.A. rules to inter-national
rules. Such a change
would mean that no fouls would be
shot until the last two minutes of
each half, and each foul would
then draw two shots. The possibil-ity
of a 30 second rule was also
discussed. The rule would give
each team only 30 seconds to get
off a shot. No decision was made
on either of the two possibilities
but the semi-final game was play-ed
using these rules.
The coaches also took time out
along the way to do some recruit-ing
and scouting. When asked
which airline was holding its an-nual
stewardess convention at their
hotel, neither coach was avail-able
for comment.
Royal trackmen travel to Superior
to improve upon third place finish
by Richard Zaderaka
Bethel will compete against Sup-erior
and Northland tomorrow af-ternoon
in the Royal's third track
meet of the season, at Superior,
Wisconsin. "We hope we can a-venge
our loss to Northland,"
Coach Gene Glader said. He was
referring to last week's competi-tion
in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Bethel placed third out of five
entries but, according to Coach
Glader, that finish was disappoint-ing
since the Royals narrowly
missed edging out Northland for
second. In several events, Royal
participants fell slightly short of
performances which would have
given them higher finishes and the
teams point total necessary for sec-ond
place.
The Team scores were Stout 122,
Northland 29, Bethel 26, Eau
Claire 8 and Golden Valley 6.
The Royal's only first came in
the 50 yard high hurdles, with Dan
Mogck clocking a 7.3. Bethel's
mile relay team of Craig Anderson,
Mark Anderson, Paul Stoneburg
and Phil James, finished second.
Mark Anderson captured a pair
of thirds in the mile and two mile
run.
Pete Roemer, Phil James and
Rick Berggren each took fourths,
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Watching the grass grow or throwing Rocks from bronze Cannon
tops at "beyond the Sky" Bells, Flairs, Shirts, Vests,.or crushed outer-wear?
Where ever you "do your thing" Chess King fashions will be most
happy to go with you.
While walking along the edge in see-through crepes or daring
knits you might as well fall into "spring" and cut a cristie into summer
with fashions of Chocolate tank tops and peppermint puffs. Try on a
sparkling lemon crepe and cinnamon cord or a dazzling outfit of sun
scorched plaids or cloud smoked denims.
Swatch together the fun of "way out" colors, matchless buttons,
Edwardian collars, ruffles, tassels and chains and build tomorrow
out of your own imagination and in so doing chase the wind swept
fashions out of past into the yet blown leather of the King's Boot
Shop for today's hand-crafted footwear.
Take a trip through the darkened minds of the people that make
it a "happening" at Chess King. See through the square cone on the
turn-about-ball of goods featuring the up to date funky fashions from
around the world but don't wake up in the neon showcase of mannequins
Panovisioned in thousands of " look alike" nothings.
ebt55 Ring
Rosedale Shopping Center
Oh, yes, have a very merry Easter and remember — there aren't
any mannequins at Chess King.
8:30 First Floor vs. Off Campus
Tuesday, March 24
8:00 - Finals
The Column
by Tim Weko
(Back in print after having coals of fire heaped upon my head.)
The other day I was talking about minority recruitment with one
of the presidential candidates. Minority recruitment has been and con-tinues
to 'be a topic for discussion around the campus, and it has be-come
a point of argument during this election.
As far as I know most people are for having more minority stu-dents
here just to have some around — maybe it fulfills some wild
sense of obligation or else they can tell their friends at other schools
that they don't have anything on us now because we have a few minority
kids around.
Others want them here to enhance the beauty of the college — I
mean with all white kids here the landscape looks pretty bleak, but with
a few blacks, reds and yellows along with the whites, my how colorful
this place could be.
Actually none of that stuff holds any water (maybe) but I am for
minority recruitment. As one of the sports minded students on campus,
I think we need minority kids here for the athletic programs. Having min-ority
students around simply for the sake of having a few aroun is absurd.
I'm not positive but I don't think a few more blacks or a few more
Indians or a few more Jews (or a few more Conference Baptists for
that matter) will improve the caliber of my American Lit class or my
Milton class. I just don't think the intellectual air around campus will
be any headier than now.
But the athletic program could be improved because a lot of minor-ity
students, along with their many other talents, have interests along
those lines and they're not afraid to come out for a sport. 'But Bethel has-not
been able to recruit minority athletes because of the budget problems
that we have here. Maybe we should cut out the Clarion and use that
$11,300 to get a few minority people here — if for nothing more than
to increase mutual understanding between them and us.
* *
Rumor has it that Coach Glader got put down by a couple of Bethel
students. The two kids were sore about the profits of the Donkey Bas-ketball
game going exclusively to the track team when the publicized
deal had been that the profits would go to the athletic department as
a whole.
From there on the conversation is reported to have deteriorated
into a more personal confrontation between the parties — you know,
name calling, character assasination — the whole bit. 'The coach was
Mr. Nonchalance it was said, and he wrote the whole fiasco off as a
bad trip. He thought the two were in a bad mood.
After talking with the pair I found that they had not been in a
bad mood, they were just fed up with the way Coach Glader runs the
Athletic Department. I heard words like "puppet," etc.
This confrontation was discussed at some length with many other
students giving their opinions. Everyone seemed to be in agreement
for the most part. But who are a bunch of kids to question a man who
has been doing his job for quite a few years and who is a doctoral can-didate
in physical education?
But seriously, to me this points to a breakdown in communication
between faculty and students. Not many kids will feel free to talk to
a faculty member who laughs at them for what they say — particularly
when the students are serious about it.
Basketball Results
Final A-League Standings
Team
Won Loss
1. First Floor 8 1
2. Second New 7 2
3. Second Old
7 2
4. Off Campus 6 3
5. Faculty 5 4
6. Pit 4 5
7. Third New 3 6
8. Falcon 3 6
9. New Dorm 2 7
10. Third Old
0 9
Playoffs:
Monday, March 23
7:30 Second New vs. Second
B-League Standings
Team Won Loss
1. Third Old 7 1
2. Second New 7 1
3. Second Old 6 2
4. Pit 5 3
5. New Dorm 5 3
6. Faculty 4 4
7. First Floor 3 5
8. Falcon 2 6
9. Third New 1 7
10. Off Campus 0 8
Next Games:
Old Saturday, March 21

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THE COMFORTABLE PEW, written by Donald Dickens and
produced by Jerry Sather will be presented Friday and Satur-day
evenings at Luther Theological Seminary at 8.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE OTTOMAN one of the two
original scripts presented this weekend, is a criticism of the
church in theater of the absurd style. (see inside story)
March 24 film in memory of King
documents civil rights movement •E Bethe l College, St. Paul, Minnesota VOL. XLV - NO. 21
U of M offers an
Administrative
internship for
summer course
The University of Minnesota is
once again offering a summer ad-ministrative
internship program to
one junior from each of 26 Minne-sota
colleges.
Bethel, as one of the 26 schools,
has been invited to nominate one
student and one alternate who has
completed his junior year and has
demonstrated leadership qualities
and academic aptitude to partici-pate
in this special 10-week sum-mer
program of study and intern-ship
in a government agency on
the federal, state, county, or mu-nicipal
level in the Twin Cities
area.
The student will be registered
as a U of M Summer school
student and he will be required
to give 20 hours per week to the
governmental service to which he
is assigned. The agency will pay
the student approximately $50 per
week over the 10-week period.
The agency, in conjunction with a
professor from the university will
provide the supervision in adminis-tration.
In addition to the pay, the stu-dent
will receive from 12 to 15
academic credits for his work in
the agency.
According to Bill Johnson, Pro-fessor
of History and Political Sci-ence
at Bethel, "Students of any
undergraduate major are encour-aged
to seek further information
either from myself or the student's
own college advisor." He also
pointed out that nominations must
be in to the university by April
15.
Some of the Minnesota schools
participating in the program will
be Macalester, St. Olaf, Augsburg,
Moorhead State, St. John's, Carle-ton
and several others.
by Anne Dalton
The 1970-1971 budget of the
Bethel College Student Associa-tion
was passed with no opposition.
The budget was developed by a
committee consisting of Karen Nel-son,
Jim Carlson, Wendell Wahlin,
Tom Ford, Linda Sparks, A. Dean
Pearson and Don Dewey. It is the
result of combining and rennovat-ing
two previously submitted bud-gets.
The new budget is as follows:
Clarion $9,000
Student Activities Committee
Intercollegiate $150
International Dinner $150
Publicity Calendar $ 50
Homecoming $250
Roster $150
Photo - Art Year's
Record $8,000
General $1,500
Total $10,250
General $1,000
Stipends
Student Activities
Coordinator $1,300
President $1,300
Vice-President $300
Treasurer $500
Secretary $300
Editor-in-Chief
On Tuesday evening, March 24,
a most extraordinary movie "thea-tre
party" will be attended in
more than 300 cities simultan-eously
by one million persons.
The single showing of the film
is expected to raise $5,000,000 to
help support organizations ded-icated
to carrying on the work and
teachings of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The motion picture will docu-ment
the civil rights movement
(Clarion)
$1,300
Copy Editor $500
Production Editor $500
Total Stipends $6,000
TOTAL BUDGET $26,250
The funds allotted to the Clar-ion
($9000) will enable it to con-tinue
production and aid in impr-ovements.
In addition, stipends of
$500 each have been provided for
a Copy Editor and Production Ed-itar.
The Copy Editor will take
care of all copy and copy reading
while the Production Editor will
manage layouts, photos and proof-reading.
This will leave the Editor-in-
Chief (stipend $1,300) to serve
in a supervisory position in addit-ion
to his other duties, with res-ponsibility
for the paper as a
whole.
The majority of Senators felt
that since a year book was sup-posed
to represent a year and the
traditional yearbook was not suc-ceeding
in this function, it should
be discontinued for next year. In
its place they have alloted $8000
($1000 of which is the stipend for
the editor) to provide some sort
of a photo-art record of the year.
Exact make-up would be dependent
on the editor chosen next year.
in the U.S. during its most impor-tant
and revolutionary period. As
such, it will serve a great educa-tional
function in schools and
universities for many years to
come.
Entitled "King: A Filmed Record
. . . .Montgomery to Memphis",
the full-length two and one-half
hour motion picture traces the
work of Dr. King from 1955 until
his death in 1968.
continued on page 5
It is hoped that additional funds
can be raised for both of these
publications through a more ex-tensive
advertising program. There
is the possibility of a business man-•
ager working for both publica-tions
on a generous commission
basis. He would be required, for
example, to produce 50 ads and
his commission would not be paid
until he had secured all 50. This
could develope into a successful
part-time job. It was also suggested
that the students be charged a
small fee of $1 or $2 for their
Spire.
The Student Activities Commit-tee
budget, made up of Intercoll-egiate,
International Dinner, Pub-licity
Calendar, Homecoming, The
Roster and Photo-art Year Record,
totals $8,750. This leaves $1,500
in the general fund for social act-ivities
or other proposed student
functions
The General Fund would pro-vide
for shortages in other areas
and for special activities such as
syposiums or special speakers.
In addition to the stipends al-lotted
the resident, Vice-President,
Secretary and Treasurer, a stipend
of $1,300 for a Student Activities
continued on page 2
Today's election
! will instate
2 student leaders
Last Friday's primary election
found just under 50% of the Stu-dent
Body selecting Rick Berggren,
Elden Elseth, Hugh McLeod and
Tom Ford as the final contenders
in this week's election for Presi-dent
and Vice-President of the
Student Association.
The candidates were introduced
in Wednesday's chapel and each
one presented his election plat-form.
Rick-s platform is one of
minority recruitment, new campus
planning, upgrading of athletics,
and more "things to do" on cam-pus.
Elden has included reorgani-zation
of the Senate, discontinuing
the Spire and an expansion of
social and cultural activities in his
platform.
Voting is taking place this week
Thursday and Friday at the Coffee
Shop ticket window. In addition
to President and Vice-President,
class senators and senators-at-large
will also be chosen at this
election. There are eight positions
available.
Rick Berggren, junior, pre-sidential
candidate.
Tom Ford, sophomore, vice-presidential
candidate.
Elden Elseth, junior, pres-idential
candidate.
Hugh McLeod, sophomore,
vice-presidential candidate.
In compiling 1970.71 budget, Student Senate
reorganizes government, withdraws WBCS funds
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Page 2 the CLARION Friday, March 20, 1970
Hatfield favors Commission recommendations
of volunteer military to enhance national security
As tuitiongoes upward
Will students go down?
At the senate meeting this week, Student Association President
Dave Shupe brought to the notice of the senators the fact that he and
vice-president Berggren would be attending a meeting of the Board
of Education this weekend. He said that the board members would be
asking him how students felt about the tuition raise. Apparently they
don't know. This editorial comment is for the benefit of those members
who may happen upon it — especially since the meeting is in the Twin
Cities this time — and to give students a few things to think about in
planning their future education.
Students have been strangely silent this year on the issue of
increased tuition. But I think it would be a mistake to concur with
President Nixon that silence means approval.
There are two things any institution needs in order to be classified
as a school. It needs both students and professors. The main reason
given the students for raised tuition this year was faculty salaries.
Of course a college needs faculty, however, it also needs students.
Look at a few facts. According to James Bragg, 70 percent of
Bethel's students work to help put themselves through school. In three
years tuition has increased one-third or 33 percent. It has gone up
$550. As a freshman three years ago I paid $550 per semester, tuition.
Next year it will be $825 — per semester.
Last year the catalogue estimate of student expenses was $2250.
Next year it will be at least $2500. If you fail to understand the mean-ing
of the statement 'a school needs students,' do a little simple arith-metic.
If Bethel lost as few as ten students, they would lose $25,000
or between two and three faculty salaries.
This month's Standard made a very interesting and misleading
statement of fact. Students, at Bethel College and Seminary, they said,
pay 50 percent of their educational expenses. That may be true for
the Seminary. However, students at the college pay over 80 percent
of the cost of their education. College students are, in a sense, subsi-dizing
the Seminary. Nothing against Sem students, but anyone who
aspires to become a minister is truly in God's will and holier than the
average run of the mill teacher or social worker. Must we reward
and take care of these holy men — won't God — especially if they're
within His will?___
Another interesting fact is that increase in financial aid this year
did not, according to reports from the last meeting of the Board of
Education, coincide with the increase in tuition.
Now, it really would not seem quite so ridiculous to pay the amount
of tuition that we do, if the facilities were comperable.
I happen to have a double major. Between my two major fields,
I have three fulltime faculty members and another that doubles in two
fields. None of these four have full professorships, though one is a
doctor. They include two instructors, two associate professors. Next
year one of those professors is leaving and the administration has not
as yet been able to state that they have a replacement.
Three years ago, there were three fulltime members in those
fields (two of which had doctorate degrees). They included an instructor,
an associate professor and a professor. One of these fields, that of
sociology, has one of the largest number of majors in the college.
Faculty is not the only problem, however. As everyone knows, our
campus buildings are old and as promises of a new campus continue
to extend to later and later dates, so also continues the reluctance to
put money into the present campus. Those facilities which are not old
and inadequate are generally non-existant such as a chapel, and an
auditorium for the performing groups on campus, to name a couple
of the most blatant inadequacies.
I have a brother who is a senior in high school 'but I can honestly
say that I don't know anyone that I would recommend 'Bethel to. Of
course, all small private colleges are in much the same position,
financially, however, I would venture to say that most do not pay 80
percent of the cost of their education.
* * * *
Poo outranks 'in White Ameica'
Dave Whitney, Assistant professor of Speech, and his high school
students presented In White America last weekend in Room 106. a
rather interesting comparison in the audience between this production
and the one of Winnie the Poo was brought to my attention. Everyone,
including President Lundquist and Dean Virgil Olson turned out to
see Poo Bear and his antics. No such persons were present last
Saturday evening when the production of In White America brought to
focus one of the major problems and issues on our campus.
Nothing against Poo Bear, but could it be that the administration
finds fairy tales more worthy of their time than the problems of the
campus and the concerns of the students? Of course there could have
been a valid excuse for their failure to attend
Senate passes budget proposal continued from page 1
Coordinator has been added. The
function of this person would be
to appoint all Student Activity
chairmen and then oversee and
coordinate all of the committees'
activities as far as scheduling,
finances and program are concern-ed.
It was noted by President Dave
Shupe that this would not overlap
or detract from the duties of the
Association President. The only
duty lost to the President would
be that of appointing committee
chairmen.
The earlier budgets presented
had suggested the possibility of
eliminating such things as Home-coming,
Spire and Coeval. Home-coming
has been retained intact
Senator Mark 0. Hatfield (R.—
Ore.) recently announced his in-tention
to introduce legislation
based on the recommendations of
the Gates Commission.
"The Gates Commission," said
Hatfield, "has made an outstanding
analysis of the feasibility of an
all-volunteer military, and I wish
to see their conclusions imple-mented
this session."
Appointed by President Nixon,
the Gates Commission approxi-mately
one year ago, reported to
the President that a volunteer
military is feasible at this time
and at present manpower levels.
It further pointed out that the
first-term enlistee is now subsidiz-ing
his own tour of duty; by re-ceiving
an inordinately low salary
he is paying a hidden tax which
should be shifted to a budgetry
cost rather than in effect penaliz-ing
the soldier for serving his
country.
Hatfield, who since becoming a
Senator in 1967 has twice intro-duced
legislation to abolish the
draft and establish a volunteer
military, further stated that he
was pleased to see the credibility
of a Presidential Commission lend-ing
to assertions he has been mak-ing
for over three years. The
Senator also noted that he was
pleased to be introducing a bill
ebapet gott5
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
Dr. Walter Wessel will be the
first speaker of Holy Week as
he brings the message, "The con-summation".
On Tuesday Pastor
Ellis Eklof of the Edgewater Bap-tist
Church will bring a message on
the centrality of the cross. Don
Rainbow has prepared a medita-tion
for Wednesday using Ben Hur
as a source. On Thursday Brigadier
Miller of the Salvation Army in
New York City will speak.
Since many
students will
be leaving early
for Easter Break
the CLARION will
not publish next week.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor in chief Pat Faxon
News Editor Marg Erickson
which he believed the President which further recommended that
could support, citing President draft registration on a standby ba-
Nixon's campaign address in which sis should continue and conscrip-he
stated, "If we can reasonably tion should be reinstituted only by
meet our manpower needs by oth- joint resolution of the Congress
er means, then we should prepare at the recommendation of the Pres-for
the day when the draft can ident.
be phased out of American life." "The Gates Commission has con-
"The President's Commission clusively answered all of the cri-makes
it very clear that that day ticisms of an all-volunteer mili-has
come," said Hatfield. tary," Hatfield said. "We have
"In the long run," the Senator waited too long as it is to abolish
contined, "we will be saving peacetime conscription and owe it
money and our national security to ourselves, and particularly to
will be enhanced." These points our youth, to rectify this ineffi-were
also made by the Commission cient and inequitable injustice."
Up against the wall?
Get it on, government
What can student government do next year at Bethel? A typical
response to this question is "Nothing much."
Timid student leadership, lack of specific programs, student
apathy, administrative bullheadedness, faculty superiority complexes,
and financial difficulties could hog-tie our student government next
year.
However, while the snags confronting and blocking student power
could develop into a tangled mess; they also might be unravelled
and straightened out
The possibilities for extensive and dynamic action arising from our
student government are enormous. The recently passed student-senate
budget (see front page story) contains some new organizational plans
that will streamline student government, make it more effective and
responsive to the students, and free the association president from
some of his administrative duties so he can assume an aggressive
leadership role.
Some directions in which student government should and can move
next year are: stimulating intellectual and cultural life on the campus,
consideration of national issues with educational forums such as Mora-torium
Day last fall, developing close working relations with neighbor-ing
colleges and community agencies that are working for community
improvement, minority group recruitment, revising cirriculum, the
grading system, and graduation requirements, re-examining the rela-tionship
between the Conference and Bethel students, decreasing the
high college costs students pay by having the seminary students
pay for their education instead of the college students paying the
seminarian's way (they pray, we pay), re-examination of present living
facilities and the rules governing those facilities, providing more flex-ible
and informal social activities, beefing up the athletic program,
lobbying to lower costs on books, etc.
There is a lot to be done; a whole lot more than hasseling over
whether or not to have the Spire, creating a good image for Bethel or
helping her attain financial solvency, (students pay enough without
going out on fund-raising drives for the college), discussing what
to do with Homecoming, counting leaves on the trees on Arden Hills
campus (the Promised Land), or contemplating our morality and spirit-uality
as we scratch our belly-buttons.
One of the presidential candidates issued a mandate for a year of
relevancy. Relevancy can be achieved by the student government and
the student body as a whole through pushing for needed and significant
changes on Bethel's campus and emphasizing Bethel's Christian respons-ibility
to be aware of what is going on in the world and working for
needed changes. Remember, action is more effective than rhetoric.
What can student government do next year at Bethel? A potential
response, "Anything and everything."
Marjorie M. Rusche
Feature Editor Cindy Rostollan
Proofreader Sharon Watson
Fine Arts Editor Marjorie Rusche
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Sports Editor Tim Weko
Business Manager Warren Magnuson
Layout Editor ... Lynn Hansen
Photographer Phil Humbert
Copy Editor Anne Dalton
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle,
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Tom Ford, Dave Greener, Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
Jan Ullberg, Jan Urspringer, not necessarily reflect the position of the
Wibby Smith, Ron Roper college or seminary.
with the note by the Senate that
it is primarily a College function.
Provision for the Spire and Coeval
has been incorporated into the idea
of a photo-art year record.
A major change in this new bud-get
has been the ommission of
support for the Bethel radio station
WBCS. It was felt by the Senate
that because of their very limited
funds they would not be able to
approach the sum of money needed
by WBCS to continue functioning.
Therefore it was decided to free
them from Senate control and
support and enable the station to
investigate other possible sources
of financial help in terms of a
grant or loan.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE OTTOMAN presented this
weekend is written and produced by Steve Bracklow.
Friday, March 20, 1970 the CLARION Page 3
Senatorial candidate Gabe seeks to know Bethel, Americans
by Cindy Rostollan
Watch out! This year we've got
a student running for Senate who
aims to keep his promises. Gabriel
Ofotokum, (just Gabe), is a fresh-man
from Nigeria (who eventually
plans on going into medicine),
and he has been involved in pol-tics
for a long time.
"When I was in high school, I
was secretary of my local High
School Students Union, and in the
University in Ibadan, I became
involved in conference politics,
and worked on the cultural com-mittee,
variety show committee
and things like that.
"My father is a teacher at the
Baptist school in our small village,
and he often has to use his influ-ence
in village matters. My basic
interest in politics came from him.
"Some of the things I'd like to
see done if I get in are: an increase
in social activities, making meal
tickets transferable (from person
to person), meals should be option-al
if you're in the dorm, and I
believe that the telephone on cam-pus
should be open from 7-12 ev-eryday,
even on Sunday.
"The basic reason I want to be-come
a Senator here is, many of
the foreign students really aren't
known well. I believe I can get
to know Bethel and the Americans
through this experience and they
can get to know me.
"When I first came here, I
had terrible ideas about the Am-ericans,
basically from what I
learned from the papers about
Viet Nam and the things that
happen there. Now after talking to
the students here, and reading
your papers, I've learned what is
really happening there and what
the Americans are really like. I
think the Americans get much of
the same impressions about Nigeria
from the papers, as I got about
Viet Nam, and I can understand
why they feel that way about Ni-geria
by just reading your papers
and watching T.V., and seeing what
is happening in my country. I get
papers from home to get the true
picture about what's happening.
"I've learned that you have to
take the Press at face value, and
try and seep the good from it.
You must learn to read it objec-tively,
that's the only way to get
at peace with yourself. Often I be-lieve
that the press is endangering
the prospect of peace.
"When foreign students come to
Bethel, people expect us to be-have
like Americans. They should
learn to realize that it's a bit dif-
Gabriel Ofotokun, senator-ial
candidate.
ficult for us to adjust here, espec-ially
in religious matters.
"Christianity is influenced by
culture, and so many of the things
you do, I see as hypocritical. Then
there are things you will probably
see me do that are hypocritical to
you, too, but this is just the dif-ference
in our culture.
"Often one of the biggest mis-takes
missionaries make when they
come to another country is they
try and impress their culture on
us. I have mixed emotions about
missionaries because of that. I
believe that they should try and
change anything in a people that
is contrary to the Bible, but many
try and Americanize us too. They
should try to know as much as
they can about our culture, and
then understand the people. If
they do find something that
shouldn't be, then they should try
and tactfully tell the people. Many
of my people don't accept Chris-tianity
because of the secondary
things.
"Six or seven years ago, there
was an uprising and many mis-sionaries
were killed. I believe
this to be partly because the peo-ple
were afraid of the way they
were being changed, and they
thought it was the missionaries'
fault. It was difficult for them to
realize that many of the things that
they had done all their lives was
wrong, and they became afraid.
"It was easier for me to accept
the missionaries because my fa-ther
had been partially educated
by them, and I knew more of
them."
Gabe says that he will also be
participating on the track team
this spring, (he was also on our
soccer team last fall). It is inter-esting
to add that while he was in
Nigeria he was an Eagle Scout.
In fact, it was through scouting
that he first came to the United
States.
"In 1967, I was one of the rep-resentatives
from Nigeria at the
Eagle Scout Jamboree in Idaho.
Our scout council spent some time
in the twin cities, though I stayed
with the Kravik family in Anoka.
When I got back to Nigeria, I
wanted to go to school in America
and found Bethel was one of the
Baptist colleges in the United
States, (and in the Cities), so I
applied. I had no money, and when
I heard from Bethel, they said they
could give me financial help, but
they did send the name of a
man who wanted to sponsor an
African student that was interest-ed
in scouting and Bethel.
"I contacted that man, (Mr. John
C. Parish), and also the people I
had stayed with during the Jam-boree,
and they made all the
arrangements here. Things work-ed
out for me, and now I am here.
"I believe it is providence I
am here, and I know that nothing
will happen to me until I have
fulfilled what I have to do here.
I have never had to be troubled
about tomorrow, I'm always taken
care of."
Mobe encourages obedience to draft in 'paperwork war'
WASHINGTON — (CPS) — The
New Mobilization Committee To
End The War In Vietnam has de-vised
a plan to inundate the Selec-tive
Service system in paperwork
and thus beat the SS at its own
game.
Proceeding on the assumption
that "Selective Service just cannot
stand up, administratively, to ab-solute
obedience of the draft law,"
New Mobe is urging everyone to
by Carroll L. Jarp
A group of 45 Bethel students
plan to join Campus Crusade's
"Operation Sunshine" in Daytona
Beach, Florida during spring va-cation.
"Operation Sunshine" sounds
like an episode from Mission Im-possible;
instead, it is a strategic
means of witnessing to college stu-dents
about Christ.
This spring 100,000 college stu-dents
from all over the country
are expected to hit the beaches
in Daytona. "Operation Sunshine"
purposes to present Christ through
personal evangelism to these kids
with a follow-up program con-ducted
by the local Campus Cru-sade
groups. Campus Crusade has
been involved with this type of
beach evangelism for several years.
Last year Bethel students wit-nessed
on beaches of Fort Lauder-dale.
"This year we hope to be
more effective in reaching young
comply so completely with the law
that the nation's 4,100 local draft
boards become hopelessly tied up
in paperwork.
The plan, which is part of the
New Mobe spring offensive, re-quires
that male registrants in-form
their draft boards of every
change in their address, religion,
mental attitude, health, occupation,
and marital status. Selective Ser-vice
law already requires such
pople for Christ by joining a larg-er
group of Christian kids in wit-nessing,"
said Dale Saxon, Chris-tian
Service Director. "In so doing
we will get the feeling of joining
with other Christians from secular
schools as well as getting to know
better fellow Bethel students. Be-sides
witnessing to kids on the
beaches, we hope to have a minis-try
in the homes where we will be
staying. We also hope to just have
some fun in the sun," he continued.
Campus Crusade hopes to in-volve
500 to 1000 Christian stu-dents
in its "Operation Sunshine"
this year. The program includes
performances by a band known as
the "Armageddon", the AIA
Weight Lifting Team, and such
speakers as well as Bill Bright,
Swede Anderson, Dave Hannah,
and Andre Kole.
The 45 Bethel students will be
leaving St. Paul on March 27th by
car and will return April 3.
notification, but boards, because
of the paperwork involved rarely
keep close checks on all these mat-ters,
particularly on every change
in mental attitude.
New Mobe's major focus will be
to recruit the 18 million men in
the 5-A Classification (over-age)
into the "paperwork war."
Although the law requires every
male born after August 30, 1922,
to be registered and carry his draft
card, local boards generally pay no
attention to their over-25 registr-ants.
If local boards were suddenly
forced to pay attention to the old-ies,
they would quickly find them-selves
armpit-deep in paperwork.
New Mobe spokesman Mrs. Trudi
Foung says, "We want everyone
to take this law so seriously that
they inform their board of every
single change (in their status), even
if they're over-age or have already
completed their service."
A local board must place in a
registrant's file all material the
registrant requests placed there.
If several hundred books a regis-trant
has read, for example, change
his mental attitude or religious
beliefs, the books may be placed
in the registrant's file.
College, Sem
produce plays
Two plays both written and pro-duced
by college and seminary
students will be presented Friday
and Saturday evenings this week-end
at Luther Theological Semin-ary.
According to Dale Rott, Asso-ciate
Professor of Speech at the
college, "the drama department
attempts to have an experimental
opportunity each year to encourage
original program and playwriting."
Both of this year's productions
attack the attitudes of the church,
Comfortable Pew through a trad-itional
satire style and A Day in
the Life of the Ottoman through a
style called theater of the absurd.
Both plays were written by semin-ary
students, The Comfortable Pew
by Donald Dickens and A Day in
the Life of the Ottoman by Steve
Brachlow, who is also the producer
of that particular script.
Bethelites head for the beaches
U.S. Senate flexes some inactive muscles as Laos threatens
WASHINGTON — (CPS) —That
Laos is an early Vietnam in the
context of American involvement
has become a cliche in the short
time of two weeks—since several
senators of both parties brought
the issue to the floor of Congress
and asked the executive branch
for an explanation.
Previous to that, most senators
had contented themselves with
calling for the release of testimony
on Laos compiled for the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee by
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.).
But bringing of the issue to the
floor of the Senate lent an aura of
credibility and immediacy to press
reports date-lined "Laos" which
for months sought the attention
of only the most determined South-east
Asia watchers.
The Senate has, of late, been
suffering an identity crisis; some
members are beginning to under-stand
that Congress shares with
the President the power of shaping
America's foreign policy, yet few
agree how far that power extends.
For many, the Laos question is
a good testing ground for the flex-ing
of some hitherto inactive Sen-ate
muscles. And apparently the
tactic has worked, for President
Nixon found reason to issue a
3,000-word report dealing mainly
with the past, but throwing at
least an official glimpse on the
present. Left unanswered, however,
was just how much the present will
mean to the future.
Perhaps one of the more telling
points in the President's state-ment
was his failure to state that
the United States was obliged to
protect the neutrality of Laos "at
any cost." While justifying the
bombing of the Ho Chi Mhin trail
by claiming as its intent the pro-tection
of American troops in
South Vietnam, he did not threaten
American retaliation against North
Vietnamese aggression.
Nixon did claim that America
had no ground combat forces in
Laos. No one is certain if that in-cludes
Green Berets working for
the Central Intelligence Agency
which, since it is a secret organ-ization,
would not be considered in
any account. The tag-along admis-sion
of between 27 and 50 Ameri-can
deaths and the recent admis-sion
that Americans in Laos have
received combat pay since 1966
raise a new governmental credibili-ty
gap concerning the extent of US
ground involvement.
If the President's appeal to Rus-sia
fails, the love affair between
this country and Laos may either
deepen or die a hasty death. Those
subscribers to an honorable settle-ment
in Vietnam cannot help but
figure Laos and Thailand into their
equation. Seemingly, they would ad-vocate
full logistical support to
Souvanna Phouma just as they do
for the Theiu-Ky regime.
Likewise, those arguing for total
disengagement from Vietnam fear
that military considerations will
overshadow political ones, and the
United States will find itself in a
Laotian quicksand not unlike the
infant rays of American involve-ment
in Vietnam under Johnson
and Kennedy.
In essence, the Geneva Accord—
which both the U.S. and North Viet-nam
are in violation of—are all
the solid support Nixon can lean on
in his future decisions regarding
Laos. Any and all other action,
should the re-instatement of Laos
as a neutral country fail, will be
tempered by political and military
considerations.
Page 4 the CLARION Friday, March 20, 1970
These are the five of the group that won the beauty con-test.
(Riding does get tedious, you know).
The Jug Band provides music to change the tires by—an
impromptu practice performance, perhaps 'WE'LL BE FINE.'
After the audience warmed up, it WAS fine. Dean, con-trary
to appearances, does not have a stomach ache— he's
'playing the box.'
Handbook presents platform for
Earth Day's ecological teach-in
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ST. PAUL, MINN 55117
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C. Bruce Anderson, Asst. Pastor
BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:40 P.M.
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IP" • *
Jug Band travelogue unmasks
weekend musical excursion
"C'mon, guys, let's get a move on." Dean
Lindberg summons 'the gang' to the cars.
Oh . . . we're . .. off to see the Wizard
(in Platteville, of course).
Editor's note: Last weekend
Bethel's own Jug Band travelled
in concert out of state. The story
of their adventures is told here —
in their own words.
This part is being written by me
(Bo) — I'm going to tell you a-bout
our performance in Platt-ville.
(U.S.A.) The first half of the
performance went smoothly —how-ever
the audience wasn't in with
us or our music — this was six
blocks from a "bum voyage". Af-ter
we closed Alice's Restaurant
(Intermission) we gave out our
innards hoping only to give our
audience sweet music. As fate
would have it — the people got
into it — we were very enlighten-ed
to hear the audience yelling for
an encore — (however, I was a
little worried when I first came
through the curtain to find the
people on their feet — were they
leaving? — they weren't) — we
proceeded to play Abilene —
then left — they want more —
ok — we'll give them an improv-isation
of Blues in F which after
threehours broke into the Platte-ville
Blues. After this the entire
Band formed a greeting line at
the exits and shook the very hands
of our beautiful audience to quote
the words of a song . . . "But we
can't be happy — till we make you
happy too." — Bo
We were cruisin' along, takin'
pichers of the natives and all
when of a sudden Steve D. yells
out at a top of his lung, "Say
Guys", he says, "say Guys, what
say we grab a bit to eat?" Well
about this time we passed by this
liquor store and we stopped to
buy our food. We did not buy any
liquor seeing we were from Bethel.
We bought 4 lbs. of chedder
cheese, 2 lbs. of sausage and 1
box Ritz Crackers, 2 bottles pop,
and 4 sticks beef jerkey, and 1
tub of French onion potatoe chip
dip. We kind of ate the stuff while
we rode. Near the end, tho, most
of us was gettin' full but Steve D.
was still goin' strong. You should
of seen him and that old rat but
(sausage) he hanged it on the coat
rack and commenced to snapping
at it like it was a apple. Maurice
Z. was the one for the cheese
tho. Any way we finally settled
down to read our Sgt. Rock and
Girl from Uncle Comic books and
all this was writ by D. Fryk.
After three hours of being ter-rorized
by the driving habits of
Maurice Zaffke, our manager, I
cleverly suggested that we stop
and pick up some food. (The idea
being that Zaffke would rather
eat than drive and therefore I
could drive for him and we could
relax.) And sure enough — it
worked. While Maurice (and every-one
else) stuffed themselves with
sausage, cheese, Ritz Crackers, dip,
and pop, I drove through the wilds
of Wisconsin. It was a pleasant
change but unfortunately, Maurice
could only eat so long, and then he
wanted to drive again. I would've
argued with him but since it was
his car I didn't.
On the return voyage we were
within range of Bethel but our
gas tank was low. We wanted to
get back in time for Sunday dinner
because everyone knows that that's
the only square meal of the week.
So we decided to risk it and we
steamed on toward Our Block. But,
alas, bum voyage — we ran out of
gas in South St. Paul. So Keano
Deano and me walked to the gas
station. (Actually we hitchhiked
there except nobody picked us up.)
We had to give the guy a $5
deposit to use his funnel. What a
gyp — but we got our deposit
back so it wasn't too bad. We got
a ride back to the car in a super
54 Chev. station wagon. We put
the 75¢ worth of gas in and made
it to Bethel. The windows were
all steamed up when we got back
because they had been sleeping
while we were gone. M.S.
On March 14 we went to Platt-ville
Wisc. Bill (of "Marry Me Bill"
fame) was there wearing boots
and traditional overflaps. To the
dismay of all, his shoulders were
located. To top it off, we had no
money so Harold Conrad willed
his last quarter to the treasury.
We agreed that this would poss-ibly
need repair, so we went to
the show. Actually, we couldn't
stay so we came back to Tuscon.
Oh well we'll just have to try
again tomorrow.
In all actuality we left on a
clear windy day and drove in two
cars filled with happy and expect-ing
enthusiasm. I, Mark, Fryk, Bill,
and Maurice drove in his car till
we had a flat tire which caused a
spot in which we played outside
whilst Mark fixed the tire then
we got back into our car and drove
off hoping to meet car number 2
at Black River Falls, containing
'Barry A., Bo C., Dean L., Bob V.).
Car number 1 missed the turn and
ended up 25 mile out of the way.
"It all started when we missed
the turn. It was 25 miles later that
we knew it. Some of the boys
were crying, others were worried
but I cried to the driver to hit the
turn. It was "Couny Road E."
Now the race was on. The road
at first led to a small gas station.
Then — on down County Road
The road had more
curves than Rachel Welch and was
skinnier than Twiggy. Just as Mau-rice
would pull us out of one
curve we'd hit another. The scen-ery
was gruuvey. I was taking
pictures when it all ended and we
hit the highway.Our next stop was
a liquor store and picked up some
food and D.F. will tell you that.
I tried to find some Platteville
limestone but it was porphirotic
sandstone.
We stayed overnight in Wiscon-sin
at Myrbo's. We got to have
some sloppy joes. There was a
crummy movie on T.V. (I only had
enough time to brush up before
watching it). The movie was about
a crazy ex-movie star. Some of us
slept on the floor in the basement.
It could have been a "bum voy-age"
if we didn't have pillows.
That night I really had a "keen"
dream about playing in Carnnegie
Hall with the St. Olaf choir. At
last we awoke and then we came
back. During the movie we had
leftover cheese and crackers (this
was after we had performed on
Saturday night). "UPCLOSE" was
included in our volcubual itiner-ary
for the weekend. I guess
that's all the important stuff. You
can ask me for the details. How
about this "three pigs fell in the
mud". We also had breakfast on
Sunday morning. I had a Prophits
test on Monday. End. (signed)
Dean L.
After scrambled eggs (yeecck!)
at 7:00 in the morning the weary
band of wandering minstrels boar-ded
the Zaffke Special and headed
northwest without the use of maps,
lives in the hands of the raving
charts, or compass. Putting their
mad, bloody-nosed pilot the mus-ical
moronsical morons marvel-ously
made their journey to home
base (St. Paul). Does any man
doubt that they could make the
entire 250 mile trip with an empty
gas tank? Not the Mad Hatter! Oh
well, Dean Stewy can always take
a walk. — Bill M.
Fri. Nite: Took the 4:30 train
to East Dubuque, Ill. Walked up
the bar lined streets to find a
phone cause they took the one
out of the big East Dubuque sta-tion.
Sat. Went to hospital to visit
sick grandfather.
Sat. Arrived in Platteville just
in time for the "concert"?
Sun. Home church. Everyone
asked me why I was home and I
was afraid to tell them.
Sun. aft. Back to St. Paul on
3:55 train which was actually 4:05.
Rode in a car that was filled with
a bunch of kids that played poker
and talked loud.
Sun. eve. Back in St. Paul. by
donovan.
Prepared by Ballantine Books and
Friends of the Earth for the First
National Environment Teach-In-
April 22, 1970 . . . The Environ-mental
Handbook, edited by Gar.
rett De Bell; 384 pages - 95¢ origi-nal
paperbound book; No hard
cover edition available.
National concern is being fo-cused
on the crisis of the environ-ment.
April 22nd Earth Day is to
be a national day of environmental
action on campuses and in com-munities.
The Environmental Handbook
brings together the writings of stu-dents,
scientists, writers, and con-servationists
with suggestions for
an ecological platform and tactics
for change that can be acted on at
once by communities. The work-ing
part of the handbook relies
heavily on contributions f r o m
young most of whom are gradu-ate
students or otherwise connected
with student groups working on
environmental problems.
A full range of alternatives for
actions are described, including
those which are contradictory, but
the reader can hardly fail to find
something he can do.
The handbook demonstrates how
the actions each day of each indi-vidual
contributes to helping or
hurting the environment.
Members of the 1969-70 Women's choir and their Director Oliver Mogck will head California-ward
for their annual tour.
Women's choir travels to California on spring tour
Friday, March 20, 1970 the CLARION Page 5
by Steve Duininck
Each week I go through the hassel of writing something entertain-ing,
educational and somewhat coherant for all you people to read.
Sometimes my stories are too abstract or my coherancy ain't coherant,
but whatever is my smallest fallacy, I'm usually rebuffed for it.
So I got to thinking about writing an article that would please ev-eryone
to the point that I would hear a break in the endless criticism.
That is an impossibility. But it makes me think of the story of this little
baby old enough to talk but yet not old enough to know how to protect
his castle from others.
One morning he got up and said he would make everyone happy.
So he left his home with a bag full of assorted treats and went down
the path. First he came to a woodcutter. He told him how he was glad
the woodcutter cut wood and if he would or could cut him some wood.
In return he promised him some candy. But the wood cutter stole the
candy from the baby and told him to get going or he'd be on his last
leg. The baby shook it off and smiled as he cleared out of the woods.
Next he ran into a farmer, in the dell, and said. "Hi Ho!" The agri-cultural
specialist was milking his heifer so the kid offered to help,
since he had a lot of pull. The farmer thought the boy to be unqualified
for the job and ran him off the field with a pitch fork yelling "You
snot nosed kid, you ain't even dry behind the ears yet."
From here the kid ran, somewhat bewildered by all that was hap-pening,
'til he reached town. At the edge of Pleasantville he met a
preacher who shoved four helpful hints into his mouth before the baby
could state his case. He tried to tell the soul comforter all his problems
but each time he would open his mouth more helpful hints of nonsense
were dished out. He stumbled away choking and spitting knowing what it
meant to be filled.
He still didn't lose his faith so he figured he'd try once more. He
chose an educated gentleman next because if anyone would understand
love someone smart would. As he approached the man he saw him peek
over his bottle bottom glasses and come across with a puzzled look. Why
would an educated man be puzzled by a baby walking in diapers carry-ing
a gunny sack? It was cause the kid had a mole on his tooth. Mr. Ed
asked a few questions, gave a few answers and rode off.
So the baby went home and dreamed about all these things 'til he
same up with a conclusion: Life goes on day after day; You can't please
all the people all the time; It's a dog eat dog world; Love is a many
slender thing; and on and on and on and on and on . . .
P.S. This whole column is held together by the by-line so good-bye.
A FILMED RECORD. MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS.
One night only.
March 24th 1970, 8PM.
Tickets $5.00,tax deductible.
All proceeds to
The Martin Luther King,Jr.
Special Fund.
Film promotes M.L. King's work
On March 26th, the Bethel Wo-men's
Choir, beginning their
spring tour, will be heading to-wards
California.
The 43 members, under the
direction of Mx. Oliver Mogck, will
perform contemporary hymn
tunes, spiritual, as well as sacred
classics by Handel and Brahms.
An early American hymn with a
recorder accompaniment is one of
the highlights of the program. The
songs will be interwoven with ap-propriate
verses of scripture and
personal testimony.
According to Mr. Mogck, "The
program has great built-in inter-est
and variety for the listener.
In developing our concert pro-grams
we seek to carry out several
musical, educational, and spirit-ual
objectives, recognizing that in
each audience there are listeners
with a wide range of musical
by Bill Sievert
"Z" by Jorges Semprun, a
French-Algerian production by
Jaques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi;
directed by Constatin Costa-Gav-ras;
released by Cineme V; star-ring
Yves Montand, Irene Papas,
and Jean Louis Trintigant.
(CPS)— The slogan may have
become trite from overuse by the
skin flick people, but it once more
becomes appropriate when com-paring
"Z" to previous attempts
at movies on revolution. "Z" makes
"If. . ." (the best previous contem-porary
look at revolution) look
like a fairy tale.
While "If. . ." was very well
executed and left its audiences
ready to fight the good fight a-gainst
injustice, it was just a
story. A parable, perhaps, but
still fiction. "Z" moves at the fast
pace of fiction, but does not al-low
the viewer to forget the mili-tary
takeover of Greece is more
than a mere story. "Z" leaves a
real revolution in the lap of the
viewer.
The similarities to foreshadow-ing
events in this country makes
the drama all the more frighten-ing.
In "Z" there are the govern-ment
efforts to eradicate the
Black Panthers, the murders of
the Kennedys and King, and the
political assassination of United
Mine Workers presidential con-tender
Yablonski. In "Z" there is
the tremendous power of the mil-itary
and the intolerance of the
left that resembles Joe Mc-Carthy
eras in the past and, possibly, to
come. The police and government
keep close tabs on the left, so they
can squelch it.
"Z" demonstrates how working
through the system—taking legal
action against corruption—may ap-pear
to work, but also how the
legal system can be insidiously
tastes and emotional and spiritual
needs."
Joanne Halvorsen Smith is the
assistant conductor. Beverly Pear-son
and Jill Newcomer are ac-companists.
The itinerary for the tour is:
March 26—Alcester Baptist Church
Alcester, S. Dak.
March 29—Grace Baptist Church
Napa, Calif.
March 29—Willow Glen Baptist
Church, San Jose, Calif.
March 30—First Baptist Church
Carmel Valley, Calif.
March 31—Calvary Baptist Church
Turlock, Calif.
April 1—First Baptist Church
Kingsburg, Calif.
April 2—Grace Baptist Church
Santa Maria, Calif.
undermined and ultimately crush-ed
by the corrupt power structure.
Unfortunately, "Z" doesn't offer
any alternatives that might be suc-cessful
because in Greece today
none are suceeding. Perhaps none
can. But the producers do not
seem to want the audience to give
up hope; rather they want people
to become acutely aware of what
has happened in Greece and what
is happening and what can happen
elsewhere. They want people to
keep trying to find ways to create
a world in which ideas, particu-larly
ideas in support of peace, are
not repressed.
The action builds up quickly and
lasts through the closing credits,
which include an incredible list
of ideas, authors, music, and other
forms of expression no longer tol-erated
in Greece.
Whether or not it proves to be
the award-winner it appears it will
be, "Z" will certainly prove one of
the most politically controversial
films of our age. There almost cer-tainly
will be theaters who will
refuse to play it because of its
message rather than it's morals.
In Greece, obviously, it will never
be screened at all.
For, "Z", which meant "He
lives," tells too much about the
assassination of Gregorios Lam-brakis,
who was killed after ad-dressing
a peace rally opposing
the installation of American Pol-aris
missiles in Greece in 1963, and
it tells too much about the events
in Greece in the years since
Based on Vassili Vassilikos'
book, Director Constantin Costa-
Gavras uses his high-powered cast
including Yves Montand, to exe-cute
almost flawlessly the script
by Jorge Semprun, author of "La
Guerre Est Finie." There is no
doubt the creators and cast had
their hearts deeply in this one.
April 3—Calvary Baptist Church
Lompoc, Calif.
April 4—Foothill Baptist Church
Sylmar, Calif.
April 5—First Baptist Church
Reseda, Calif.
April 5—First Baptist Church
La Crescenta, Calif.
April 6—First Baptist Church
Palmdale, Calif.
April 7—Eagle Rock Baptist
Church, Los Angeles, Calif.
April 8—Bethany Baptist Church
Whittier, Calif.
April 9—Bethany Baptist Church
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
April 10—Nutwood Street Baptist
Church, Garden Grove, Calif.
April 11—University City First
Baptist, La Jolla, Calif.
April 12—Grace Baptist Church
Riverside, Calif.
April 12—First Baptist Church
Yucaipa, Calif.
lap of viewer
The composer of the musical
score, Mlikis Theodorakis, is under
house arrest in Greece and had to
smuggle the music out of the
country to France. Such dedication
by those who made the film shows
throughout.
There have been few films as
sincere, as frightening, and as per-fect
as "Z."
Swisher, Waite
present recital
by Marilee Benson
A joint-recital by Jay Swisher
and David Waite will be presented
Saturday, March 21, 8 p.m. in the
Seminary Chapel.
Jay, a senior music education
major, will perform on euphonium
and as a highlight of the recital
will perform Kindertotenleider
(Songs on the Death of Children)
by Gustav Mahler. In the piece a
father mourns for his dead chil-dren
and attempts to call them
back to memory. Other works by
Jay will include such composers
as Corelli, Balay, and Busser.
Dave, who is a junior, also a
music education major with a
vocal emphasis, will perform two
sections of music. The first sec-tion
will be composed of German
Leid and the second section will
include selections from the early
and late Baroque period. As a
major work, he will perform Dav-id
Mourns for Absalom, a contemp-orary
number.
Swisher has no definite plans
after his graduation in the Spring.
Waite is planning to go to
graduate school and work in the
area of music drama (opera).
Faculty, staff and students are
cordially invited to attend the re-cital
and the reception following.
continued from page 1
Ely Landau, the man who con-ceived
and organized the event and
produced the motion picture won
support from prominent executives,
creative people and top-ranking
organizations. In addition, groups
representing the three major re-ligions
agreed to lend their sup-port
to the massive job of selling
tickets for the filmed tribute to
the slain civil rights leader.
In commenting on the overall
project, Landau said, "The unique
concept of a single-evening, nation-wide
showing of the film will not
only produce maximum revenues
to help carry on the life work of
the late Dr. King but, with the help
of the hundreds of individuals and
organizations that are contributing
their time, talent and energies, will
also serve as a dramatic tribute to
Dr. King's memory. We hope that
in some small way this event will
be worthy of, and do justice to, the
cause to which Dr. King devoted
his life."
An even longer version of the
film, running over four hours, will
also be available for educational
purposes following the March 24
event.
'Z' flick leaves real revolution in
Page 6 the CLARION
Friday, March 20, 1970
Two Bethel coaches attend national
small college basketball tournament
by Bill Ankerberg
Last week the annual National
Association of Intercollegiate Ath-letics
convention was held in Kan-sas
City, Mo. Bethel's two repre-sentatives,
Coach Mo Shields and
Jack Trager, had a lot to report.
Perhaps the most interesting de-velopment
of the convention was
the drafting of singer Ray Hilde-brand
for this year's athletic ban-quet.
Aside from seeing old friends
and attending specialized sessions,
the coaches also saw the N.A.I.A.
Basketball Tournament. This year
the tournament featured 32 teams,
one for each district. The Minne-sota
representative was St. Thom-as
College of St. Paul.
The convention also featured the
national group meetings to discuss
equipment and rule changes for
next year. The main issue in the
football caucus was the influx of
neck injuries this past season.
There was much discussion when it
was revealed that 90 percent of
neck injuries are directly related
to the face guard. The main issue
was whether or not to keep the
face guard on. No decision was
made.
The basketball rules discussion
revolved around the possibility of
switching N.A.I.A. rules to inter-national
rules. Such a change
would mean that no fouls would be
shot until the last two minutes of
each half, and each foul would
then draw two shots. The possibil-ity
of a 30 second rule was also
discussed. The rule would give
each team only 30 seconds to get
off a shot. No decision was made
on either of the two possibilities
but the semi-final game was play-ed
using these rules.
The coaches also took time out
along the way to do some recruit-ing
and scouting. When asked
which airline was holding its an-nual
stewardess convention at their
hotel, neither coach was avail-able
for comment.
Royal trackmen travel to Superior
to improve upon third place finish
by Richard Zaderaka
Bethel will compete against Sup-erior
and Northland tomorrow af-ternoon
in the Royal's third track
meet of the season, at Superior,
Wisconsin. "We hope we can a-venge
our loss to Northland,"
Coach Gene Glader said. He was
referring to last week's competi-tion
in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Bethel placed third out of five
entries but, according to Coach
Glader, that finish was disappoint-ing
since the Royals narrowly
missed edging out Northland for
second. In several events, Royal
participants fell slightly short of
performances which would have
given them higher finishes and the
teams point total necessary for sec-ond
place.
The Team scores were Stout 122,
Northland 29, Bethel 26, Eau
Claire 8 and Golden Valley 6.
The Royal's only first came in
the 50 yard high hurdles, with Dan
Mogck clocking a 7.3. Bethel's
mile relay team of Craig Anderson,
Mark Anderson, Paul Stoneburg
and Phil James, finished second.
Mark Anderson captured a pair
of thirds in the mile and two mile
run.
Pete Roemer, Phil James and
Rick Berggren each took fourths,
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Watching the grass grow or throwing Rocks from bronze Cannon
tops at "beyond the Sky" Bells, Flairs, Shirts, Vests,.or crushed outer-wear?
Where ever you "do your thing" Chess King fashions will be most
happy to go with you.
While walking along the edge in see-through crepes or daring
knits you might as well fall into "spring" and cut a cristie into summer
with fashions of Chocolate tank tops and peppermint puffs. Try on a
sparkling lemon crepe and cinnamon cord or a dazzling outfit of sun
scorched plaids or cloud smoked denims.
Swatch together the fun of "way out" colors, matchless buttons,
Edwardian collars, ruffles, tassels and chains and build tomorrow
out of your own imagination and in so doing chase the wind swept
fashions out of past into the yet blown leather of the King's Boot
Shop for today's hand-crafted footwear.
Take a trip through the darkened minds of the people that make
it a "happening" at Chess King. See through the square cone on the
turn-about-ball of goods featuring the up to date funky fashions from
around the world but don't wake up in the neon showcase of mannequins
Panovisioned in thousands of " look alike" nothings.
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8:30 First Floor vs. Off Campus
Tuesday, March 24
8:00 - Finals
The Column
by Tim Weko
(Back in print after having coals of fire heaped upon my head.)
The other day I was talking about minority recruitment with one
of the presidential candidates. Minority recruitment has been and con-tinues
to 'be a topic for discussion around the campus, and it has be-come
a point of argument during this election.
As far as I know most people are for having more minority stu-dents
here just to have some around — maybe it fulfills some wild
sense of obligation or else they can tell their friends at other schools
that they don't have anything on us now because we have a few minority
kids around.
Others want them here to enhance the beauty of the college — I
mean with all white kids here the landscape looks pretty bleak, but with
a few blacks, reds and yellows along with the whites, my how colorful
this place could be.
Actually none of that stuff holds any water (maybe) but I am for
minority recruitment. As one of the sports minded students on campus,
I think we need minority kids here for the athletic programs. Having min-ority
students around simply for the sake of having a few aroun is absurd.
I'm not positive but I don't think a few more blacks or a few more
Indians or a few more Jews (or a few more Conference Baptists for
that matter) will improve the caliber of my American Lit class or my
Milton class. I just don't think the intellectual air around campus will
be any headier than now.
But the athletic program could be improved because a lot of minor-ity
students, along with their many other talents, have interests along
those lines and they're not afraid to come out for a sport. 'But Bethel has-not
been able to recruit minority athletes because of the budget problems
that we have here. Maybe we should cut out the Clarion and use that
$11,300 to get a few minority people here — if for nothing more than
to increase mutual understanding between them and us.
* *
Rumor has it that Coach Glader got put down by a couple of Bethel
students. The two kids were sore about the profits of the Donkey Bas-ketball
game going exclusively to the track team when the publicized
deal had been that the profits would go to the athletic department as
a whole.
From there on the conversation is reported to have deteriorated
into a more personal confrontation between the parties — you know,
name calling, character assasination — the whole bit. 'The coach was
Mr. Nonchalance it was said, and he wrote the whole fiasco off as a
bad trip. He thought the two were in a bad mood.
After talking with the pair I found that they had not been in a
bad mood, they were just fed up with the way Coach Glader runs the
Athletic Department. I heard words like "puppet," etc.
This confrontation was discussed at some length with many other
students giving their opinions. Everyone seemed to be in agreement
for the most part. But who are a bunch of kids to question a man who
has been doing his job for quite a few years and who is a doctoral can-didate
in physical education?
But seriously, to me this points to a breakdown in communication
between faculty and students. Not many kids will feel free to talk to
a faculty member who laughs at them for what they say — particularly
when the students are serious about it.
Basketball Results
Final A-League Standings
Team
Won Loss
1. First Floor 8 1
2. Second New 7 2
3. Second Old
7 2
4. Off Campus 6 3
5. Faculty 5 4
6. Pit 4 5
7. Third New 3 6
8. Falcon 3 6
9. New Dorm 2 7
10. Third Old
0 9
Playoffs:
Monday, March 23
7:30 Second New vs. Second
B-League Standings
Team Won Loss
1. Third Old 7 1
2. Second New 7 1
3. Second Old 6 2
4. Pit 5 3
5. New Dorm 5 3
6. Faculty 4 4
7. First Floor 3 5
8. Falcon 2 6
9. Third New 1 7
10. Off Campus 0 8
Next Games:
Old Saturday, March 21